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Bloom's revised taxonomy and Digital Approaches

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Taxonomy Element Higher order to lower order thinking	Keywords & Actions Items in italics are part of Blooms' digital taxonomy	Digital Approaches Key: WP word processing, DTP desktop Publishing, GIS Geographic Information Systems
	Higher Order Thinking
Creating Generating/creating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things (Putting together/combining ideas, concepts or elements to develop/construct/build an original idea or engage/stimulate in creative thinking). Rubrics At create level - Publishing -podcasting rubric.pdf digital publishing rubric.pdf	Designing Constructing Planning Producing Inventing Devising Making Building programming, filming, animating, Blogging, Video blogging, mixing, remixing, wiki-ing, publishing, videocasting, podcasting, directing/producing	Film (Movie maker, Adobe Premier Elements Online tools www.jumpcut.com, www.eyespot.com, www.pinnacleshare.com, www.cuts.com, www,animoto.com) Presentation (Powerpoint, Impress, Zoho presentation tool, Photostory, Google present) Story (WP, DTP, Presentation, podcasting, photostory, voicethread) Project flow charts, Fun with Mindbook, Blogging & video blogging (Creating original content in a blogging environment) - Blogging tool, blogger, wordpress, Vodcast, podcast videocasting screen casting - voice thread, blogging tool, skype Plan Fun with Mindbook Model Sketchup, Fun with Construction Song (finale notepad, WP, Sound recorder, Audacity, podcasting, recording narration in presentations [photostory 3, powerpoint, impress] Online tools http://voicethread.com/ http://www.looplabs.com/ http://www.jamglue.com http://www.podomatic.com/mix Media product (DTP, Movie maker, Corel, GIMP, Paint.net, Tuxpaint, Alice, Flash, Podcasting - Online tools [See web2.0] http://voicethread.com/ http://www.looplabs.com/ http://www.jamglue.com http://www.podomatic.com/mix ) Advertisement (DTP, Corel, GIMP, Paint.net, Tuxpaint, Movie maker, Alice, Flash, Podcasting) Painting (ArtRage, Paint, GIMP, http://www.picnik.com http://www.ajaxwrite.com/)
Evaluating Justifying a decision, solution, answer or course of action (Judge/evaluate/analyse the value of ideas, concepts, materials and methods by developing/constructing and applying standards and criteria). Rubrics at Evaluating level - validating rubric.pdf 2 threaded discussion rubric.pdf	Checking Hypothesising Critiquing Experimenting Judging Testing Detecting Monitoring (Blog/vlog) commenting, reviewing, posting, moderating, collaborating, networking, reflecting, (Alpha & beta) testing.	Debate (WP, sound recorder, podcasting, inspiration, free mind, Chatrooms, IM, email, Discussion boards, video conferencing Panel (WP, chatrooms, IM, email, Discussion boards, Video conferencing) Report (WP, DTP, Presentation, Camera) Evaluation (WP, DTP, Mind Map Rationale Presentation, camera, GIS[Google earth, Google Maps, Investigation (Internet, Online tools, camera, WP, GIS[Google earth, Google Maps, Flickr Arcview/explorer]) Verdict (WP etc) Conclusion (WP, DTP, Presentation) Persuasive speech (WP, Sound recorder, reasonable -argument software, Mind map - presentation mode) Commenting, moderating reviewing posting - discussion boards, forums, blog, wiki's, twitter, threaded discussions, bulletin boards, chatrooms Collaborating: discussion boards, forums, blog, wiki's, twitter, threaded discussions, bulletin boards, chatrooms, video conferencing, chatrooms, instant messaging, txt and pxt messaging, video messaging audio conferencing Networking - social networking tools, audio and video conferencing, email threads, telecommunications, instant messaging etc
Analysing Breaking information into parts/components to explore/develop/construct understandings and relationships (Breaking information down into its component elements). Rubrics at Analysing level - data analysis rubric.pdf	Comparing Organising Deconstructing Attributing Outlining Structuring Integrating, Mashing, linking, reverse-engineering, cracking, mind-mapping, validating	Survey (Web, WP, Spreadsheet, SharePoint surveymonkey email, discussion boards) Database relational; databases using MySQL and Access,Flatfile database using Spreadsheet, wikis, GIS [Google earth, Google Maps, Abstract (WP) Relationship maps - Herring or fish bone mind maps, SWOT Analysis, PMI, Venn, 6 Questions [See Bloom's, Learning styles & thing organisers] ( Inspiration, kidspiration, smart ideas, Cmap, Mindmapper, freemind Online tools - http://www.gliffy.com/ http://www.mindmeister.com http://www.drawanywhere.com/examples.aspx) Report (WP, DTP, spreadsheet, presentation, web, GIS [Google earth, Google Maps, Flickr Arcview/explorer]) Graph (Spreadsheet, digitizer) Spreadsheet (Calc, excel) Checklist (WP, Spreadsheet) Mashing - intel mash up Chart (Spreadsheet, digitizer, mind mapping tools online tools - www.gliffy.com)
Applying Using information, concepts and ideas in another familiar situation (Using strategies, concepts, principles and theories in new situations). Rubrics at Applying level - wiki editting rubric v2.pdf collaboration rubric.pdf	Implementing Carrying out Using Executing Doing, running, loading, playing, operating, hacking, uploading, sharing, editing, Wiki editing	Illustration (Corel, inkscape, GIMP, Paint) Simulation (Floor map, graphic tools, google sketchup) Sculpture Demonstration (Presentation, graphics, screen capture) Presentation - impress, powerpoint, google presentation, Zoho presentation Interview (WP, mind mapper,podcast, vodcast, audacity, sound recorder) Performance (Podcast, vodcast, film, audio recording, speech, Powerpoint Show) editing - video and sound tools playing - mmorpg's online games, simulations like Global conflicts palenstine
Understanding Explaining/defining ideas or concepts (Understanding of given information). Rubrics at Understanding level - 2 threaded discussion rubric.pdf advanced search rubric.pdf search rubric.pdf	Interpreting Exemplifying Summarising Inferring Paraphrasing Classifying Comparing Explaining, Advanced searches, boolean searches, blog journalling, twittering, categorising and tagging, commenting, annotating, subscribing	Recitation (WP, Mind map, flashcards, presentation tools) Summary (WP, Mind map, internet, wiki) Collection (WP, Mind map, internet) Explanation (WP, Mind map, internet) Show and tell (WP, presentation, graphics, audio tools - audacity sound recorder, video tools, Mind map) Example (WP, Mind map, internet, DTP) List (WP, Mind map) Label WP, Mind map, Graphics, Outline (WP, Mind map) Advanced and boolean searches - advanced search features - google etc Blog journalling - edublogs bloglines, blogger etc Diary/Journal (blogging, Myspaces, bebo, facebook, bloglines, blogger) Categorising and tagging - Del.icio.us, Diigo etc tagging, comments annotating - -noticeboards, discussion boards, treaded discussions, adobe acrobat reader, blog readers, Diigo Subscribing - aggregators, Google Reader
Remembering* Recalling specific information (Recall or recognition of specific information). Rubrics at Remembering level - bookmarking rubric.pdf	Recognising Listing Describing Identifying Retrieving Naming Locating/Finding, Bullet pointing, highlighting, bookmarking, social networking, Social bookmarking, favouriting/local bookmarking, Searching, googling,	Quiz/Test (Online tools, WP, Cue sheets) Flashcards (Moodle, Hot potatoes, scorm objects) Definition (WP, simple Mind maps, wiki) Fact (WP, Mind map, internet, discussion boards, email) Worksheet/book (WP, Mind map, Web) Label (WP, graphics tools) List (WP, Mind map, Web publishing) Reproduction (WP, internet, graphics tools, Chatrooms, email, discussion boards) Bookmarking internet browsers, web 2.0 tools del.icio.us Social Networking - facebook, myspaces, bebo Basic Searches - search engines google